Secret To DevOps Success? Be Like Lennon And McCartney

Enterprise DevOps leaders converged at IT Revolution’s DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) in Las Vegas last week, looking for education and validation from Phoenix Project author and conference chair Gene Kim, as well as a host of fellow practitioners and a throng of vendors. (See my profile of Kim from 2016).

Industry thought leader Gene Kim (L) and Compuware CEO Chris O’Malley at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas
Industry thought leader Gene Kim (L) and Compuware CEO Chris O’Malley at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas

DevOps is an automation-supported cultural and organizational transformation of the software development and operations departments in enterprises, web scale companies, and software vendors. Its goal: speed up software delivery while maintaining quality, resilience, and scale, thus providing better value to end-customers.

Now that DevOps-centric organizations are a few years into this journey of transformation, many are achieving encouraging success with the speed, quality, resilience, and scale parts of this value proposition.

Where challenges remain: the customer value part. The problem? The IT organization can’t go it alone. It needs to collaborate with the lines of business who are traditionally responsible for managing customer relationships.

Read the entire article at https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2018/10/27/secret-to-devops-success-be-like-lennon-and-mccartney/.

Intellyx publishes the Agile Digital Transformation Roadmap poster, advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives, and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, CA Technologies, Compuware, LaunchDarkly, and ServiceNow are Intellyx customers. None of the other organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers. Image credit: Jason Bloomberg.

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